[lug] Business VOIP Advice...

[Nate Duehr]

Zan Lynx wrote:
> Nate Duehr wrote:
>> And it'll keep getting cheaper.  Even my measly "residential" Comcast  
>> drop (yes, I have a commercial account but that's only for static  
>> IP's... I still share the pipe with the neighbors) can do 12 Mb/s to  
>> my house in it's sleep.  A T1 @ 1.544 Mb/s would put me to sleep  
>> waiting for a web page to load...
> 
> Yes well I would be ecstatically happy to have a T1 at home. I have 144 
> Kbps IDSL currently.

Oooh IDSL... the fake DSL that actually uses ISDN under the hood, but 
steals the D-channel too, so instead of 128, you get 144!  What a weird 
little off-shoot that technology is!  (I always thought it was a clever 
telco hack, but such things make me happy.  LOL!)

> And you know what...it's not that bad. I don't watch videos and I block 
> out a lot of ads and web sites work pretty well. Even online gaming is 
> decent.

Yeah, latency would be fine, just raw speed is limited.  ISDN really 
wasn't that bad of a technology... it's still used heavily as a 
"gateway" for videoconferencing between companies... you call my ISDN 
number, and I'll gateway your video into my LAN... and thence on to my 
desktop.  It's a common way around firewall issues for video. And zero 
security issues...

> I *do* have to wait an entire week to get a game delivered to my Win-7 
> machine via Steam.

LOL!  Ouch.

Nate